I have never feared death
Even though
Its hands were more fragile
Than banality.
I dread, however, to die
In a land where
The grave digger’s wages
Exceed the price of human freedom.
Looking for,
Discovering,
Choosing freely,
And transforming one’s essence
Into a fortress.
If the price of death is higher than all that,
I deny, in absolute terms,
To have ever feared death.
A few random poems:
- Cloris, it is not thy disdaine by Sidney Godolphin
- Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Николай Глазков – Пусть будет эта повесть
- My Invisible Valentine by Nin Andrews
- Sonnet Xv
- GESTURES by Satish Verma
- Blustering God by Stephen Crane
- Владимир Корнилов – Трофейный фильм
- Вера Звягинцева – Околдовано сердце моё
- 1914 II: Safety by Rupert Brooke
- gazebo.html
- To A Wife, On Mother’s Day by Ronald G. Auguste
- The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Напрасные жертвы
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
